Scholars Quotes

225 Scholars quotes by 199 unique authors

It's been a horrifying academic secret for decades that the children who walk away with the highest formal honors, the valedictorians and National Merit Scholars,… — John Taylor Gatto
Silence is a trick when it imposes. Pedants and scholars, churchmen and physicians, abound in silent pride. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
Recall that the United Nations commissioned Arab scholars and analysts to publish the Arab Human Development Report. What causes the backwardness, the scholars wondered, of… — Larry Elder
Scientists and scholars should constitute themselves as an international NGO of exceptional authority. — John Charles Polanyi
Civilizations evolve over time, and most scholars of civilization, including people like Carol Quigley, argue that they go through periods of warring states, and eventually… — Samuel P. Huntington
America has not always been kind to its artists and scholars. Somehow the scientists always seem to get the penthouse while the arts and humanities… — Lyndon B. Johnson
What is needed desperately today is prophetic insight. Scholars can interpret the past; it takes prophets to interpret the present. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
The word â€œartâ€ is something the West has never understood. Art is supposed to be a part of a community. Like, scholars are supposed to… — Amiri Baraka
The Greek word pseudepigrapha is a Greek word meaning 'falsely superscribed,' or what we moderns might call writing under a pen name. The classification, 'OT… — Craig A. Evans
Today there survives more than 25,0000 partial and complete, ancient handwritten manuscript copies of the New Testament. These hand written manuscripts have allowed scholars and… — Charlie Campbell
This Moses, I say, this man of old time, whose existence and character you are trying to elucidate, matters to nobody but scholars like you. — Ahad Ha'am
Brothers all In honour, as in one community, Scholars and gentlemen. — William Wordsworth
I had been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who got drunk - and I would have liked to have… — Winston Churchill
Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such… — William Hazlitt
Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children, rival authors, and… — Richard Armour
Ethnically, the Germans are Teutonic...being made up of Vandals, Gepidae, and Goths, all of whom emigrated - south from Sweden in about 500 BC; why… — Alan Coren
The classical scholars have kept alive the tradition of the superiority of the ancient languages -- a kaleidoscopic mass of suffixes and prefixes, supposed to… — Stephen Leacock
So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and... Wanda Sykes and John Legend... we're adding to the database that scholars… — Henry Louis Gates
Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent… — Lady Gregory
The humblest painter is a true scholar; and the best of scholars the scholar of nature. — William Hazlitt

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